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Sep 29, 2018 • 20 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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Oh God. The app which has compromised all the phone numbers and emails of the Conservative Party is the notorious UCampaign app! Allied to #CambridgeAnalytica. I'll try to grab some info in the thread below
Here's a thread with some background on Thomas Peters who devised it.

This app is also one of the many bits of evidence that the same (probably hacked Facebook) analytics were used in the Leave Campaigns and for Trump @carolecadwalla @VickerySec @profcarroll businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-…
Peters writes extensively about his #Brexit app on Medium. Worth reading how it worked. medium.com/@uCampaignCEO/…
This wasn't ANY old data uCampaign were using for their app targeting. It was the data hacked from million of Facebook users which #CambridgeAnalytica based their psychometric profiling and targeting on
But here's BREAKING thing. The uCampaign App, developed by a Ukrainian military veteran, funded by US billionaire close to #CambridgeAnalytica, specifically named in @DamianCollins DCMS with 'major privacy concerns'. And yet the Tory Party still used it publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm…
According to Techcrunch the Conservatives were still using the Campaign (not conference) App despite all the DCMS warnings about data privacy and #CambridgAnalytica connections techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/one…
Thanks to @brexit_sham for podcast from the uCampaign app developer, Thomas Peters, we have DIRECT EVIDENCE #CambridgeAnalytica data was 1) Used by Vote Leave 2) Used by Trump and 3) Now deployed by the Conservative Party
Oh. And if you're following this thread and missed the correction, apparently the Conference App (with current data breach) is different from the Campaign App (which seems to have many more potential breaches and be based on data from the massive Facebook hack)
More on the uCampaign App: it's only a YEAR old. And was recommended by the editor of @ConHome who
This app, with all its security flaws and lack of GDPR compliance was recommended to Conservative Activists. There was an incentive....
A year before launch: Theresa May wants to deploy an army of computerised ‘mind-readers’ to help her win the next Election. Tory chiefs have been in talks with Cambridge Analytica... credited with playing a key role in Donald Trump’s presidential victory.' dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4…
Interesting to note the timing of Thomas Peter's #Brexit tweets. The developer of uCampaign seemed to be pretty sure that Leave would win both the day before and morning of the #Brexit referendum. I wonder if any of the data provided by his 30k UK users helped with that? @ICOnews
BREAKING: Though I confused the Campaign and Conference App stop of the thread, it seems there is still a common procurer: Anthony Hind. And he and the Conservative Party were warned in June techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/one…
WARNING: If Conservative Conference App users are worried about breach of phone numbers and emails, ANY FRIEND OF ANYONE using the Conservative Campaign App should worry: there's nothing in the legal agreement to stop your data being harvested nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
This is what that data harvesting can mean (from the Cruz Campaign version). How do we know this isn't happening to Conservative Party activists and ALL their contacts? npr.org/2015/11/09/455…
Looks like little has changed in the Conservative Version of the Vote Leave/Trump/Cruz app. It still is asking for lots of detail on a profile and permission to access all contacts
I have no idea how accurate the stats are, but the @ConHome link seems to have generated over 10k users, and some Conservative Leaders deploying the app seemed to have reached 50k. (Times that by av number of 200 friends that's 10m contacts potentially breached) @ICOnews
Still no clue how many users of the Campaign App - but the Vote Leave version had 30k downloads and was on offer for a much shorter time. This has been active for a year.
To be clear the points system of 10k to 50k seems to be based on rewards for activity and sharing, and not directly to actual members.

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Can someone else help me out here? Is it just me - but as well as 2yrs of @MarkDiStef tweets, aren’t a lot of his colleague, Alex Wickham, formerly @MediaGuido also gone? He wrote a lot on Carole Cadwalldr too. I can only find this now
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British political life has become shameless. How did we get to the point someone is a hero for being under investigation for electoral fraud/contempt of court/lying? I think the turning point was the rehabilitation of Rebekah Brooks as head of Murdoch’s empire.
Brooks was found not guilty. But the high bar of proof needed to get to trial, let alone the sheer incompetence of running a criminal enterprise unawares, should have excluded her from her role as Britain’s biggest publisher. But no, she was reinstated. The rot right there.
In another age, Murdoch’s apologies would have meant something. In another age, he and Brooks would have to spend years in public service (like Profumo) to atone. But no. Once they’d got away with hacking and kompromat, others like #CambridgeAnalytica would rapidly follow.
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@BacklistedPod Loved the episode on LOTR and 'Return of the King' especially all the insights about Tolkien and his experience of the Somme. But as I said to @johnmitchinson I think you missed one thing about the historical background and the power of the myth. 1/6
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Boris Johnson's puppeteer Steve Bannon pulling strings to turn UK to far right mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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And the two grow ever closer.

Johnson was an early visitor to the White House and he and Bannon warmed to each other straight away
A source with knowledge of the relationship said: “They have been in touch since the first days of the White House, when the Government reaches out and the White House responds.

“Then Boris went over there and met Bannon. It’s not like they got in touch a couple of weeks ago”
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Since we're actually all so closely related, I think it's racist to assume than any group is not capable out 'out group' hatred. No country is immune to the fascist tendency, even if it has been a victim of fascism.
It would be ridiculous to deny that the Boers and Serbs were not ennobled by their suffering, and created oppressive regimes. It certainly can't be impermissible to suggest, as Tony Judt did having served in the IDF in the six day war, that the same could happen in Israel
Before his premature death, Tony was also insistent - for various reasons - that this is a debate that can't just be restricted to those with a Jewish heritage. To him, that exclusion would only intensify isolation through ethnicity
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Jul 10, 2018
Let's just list some of thes unicorns @afneil @IsabelOakeshott @MarkDiStef

1. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica - yes vindicated
2. Leave EU - recommendation for CPS
3. Vote Leave - various counts of illegality

Over 18 months Carole has been trolled, derided, dismissed
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The BBC has ignored or derided her on several of the biggest stories of our times. Meanwhile some other journalists just harp on about the tiny number of corrections (inevitable in all such stories) on this huge issues.
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